Seven and a half

Funera post septem nupsit tibi Galla virorum, Picentine: sequi vult, puto, Galla viros. Your Galla buried seven; ’twas time the shrew Died, Picentinus; so she married you. Dopo aver sepolti ben sette mariti, ti sposa, o Picentino, Galla. Vuol morire anche lei.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 9, LXXVIII
English translation by A. L. Francis and H. F. Tatum
Italian translation by Giuseppe Lipparini

Paul Klee, Dancing Girl, 1940. Credit: Art Institute of Chicago.